[lit-ideas] PARABOLA

In a message dated 7/5/2009 1:15:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
"Before the beginning there was  intelligence.  And that intelligence is 
that which is and which has never  not been, and it is that which we call God. 
 God is the infinite  intelligence that created and sustains all else that 
is.  As the moon to  the sun, it is given to us to share in that 
intelligence dimly."  
My  translation makes a lot more sense to me.  I realize that John was  
attempting to bestow God-credentials on Jesus
 
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Exactly. His influence was totally nefarious in the Romantic  tradition.
 
For example, there is no way a Romance speaker today can use 'verbum'  
(verbo) with a straight face. Why? John spoiled it for us.
 
In later chapters he says that Christ -- now endowed with God-credentials,  
as Geary notes -- will say this, and he will say _that_.
 
These things he said were entitled by the Greeks
 
      para-bole
 
Roman: parabola
 
   "parabola"  --- corrupted itself into the vernacular  to
 
            'parole'  in Italian
            'parole'  in French
             'palabra' in Spanish
 
which is _word_, really, only 'parabolically' so.
 
         "Only to find Gideon's  Bible" ('Rocky Racoon'). 
 
JL Speranza
   Thinking of Canterbury and why he became Anglican
        in Buenos Aires,  Argentina
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